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Document ID (ISN)24846
CIS number 76-889
ISBN(s) 0-10-163220-7
Year 1975
Convention or series no.
Title Annual Report 1974 of H.M. Chief Inspector of Factories.
Bibliographic information Cmnd 6322. Department of Employment, London. H.M. Stationery Office, P.O. Box 569, London S.E.1, United Kingdom, 1975. 133p. 29 ref. Price: £2.05.
Abstract This report contains chapters devoted to: industrial hazards (electrical engineering, woodworking, printing, engineering, explosion and fire, North Sea oil, miscellaneous); development of a major hazards policy; health and safety activities; occupational hygiene; accident experience; a brief history of the factory inspectorate from 1833 to 1974. Appendices contain, in tabular form: reported cases of industrial diseases; estimated breakdown of accident by nature and site of injury; fatal accidents; fatal and severe accident annual incidence rates (1971-74); reported accidents in 1974, by industry etc. There were 256,930 reported accidents in 1974 (32,656 on construction sites); 479 of these were fatal (161 on construction sites). Comparative figures for 1973 were 272,518 (35,947:construction), of which 549 were fatal (230:construction). The fall in fatalities is accounted for almost entirely by the reduction in the construction industry.
Descriptors (primary) occupational safety and health; labour inspection; United Kingdom
Descriptors (secondary) ionizing radiation; fatalities; safety engineering; carcinogens; report; vinyl chloride; noise; arsine; lead; vibration; electricity; isocyanates; asbestos; ethylenimine; fire hazards; toxic gases; respirable dust; explosions; explosion hazards; statistics; occupational health survey; health hazards; occupational accidents
Document type E - Books, reports, proceedings
Subject(s) Administration, legislation
Broad subject area(s)
Browse category(ies) Labour inspection